The World - News from July 20, 1989

Two drug kingpins lived in luxury in a crowded Mexico City prison, taking up enough space for 250 inmates and filling their opulent quarters with jewels, guns and cash, officials said. The two, Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, are among those charged in the 1985 slaying of U.S. drug agent Enrique S. Camarena. A pool table, an aquarium, Turkish baths, video equipment, a television, fruit trees, telephone and radio equipment and even fighting roosters were found inside the quarters after the two were transferred recently to a high-security section, Alfonso Cabrera Morales, city prisons director, said. Cabrera Morales, who became prisons director four months ago, said the plush life style was uncovered during an investigation of prison corruption.